Modern business, as many years ago, is based on the difference in the cost of goods in different parts of the world. At the same time, in modern realities, prices for the same goods can differ several times. As in ancient times, when merchants gathered in caravans, moving from one city to another, today industrial and trading companies organize the delivery of goods to customers using specialized transport organizations.
Depending on the distances and types of cargo, the following types of transport are used: land, water and air, which in turn are subdivided into road, rail, sea, river and aviation. More information about each of these types of delivery can be found on the website freelogistic.ru.
How to choose from the whole variety the most optimal and therefore the most profitable mode of transport?
In the process of technological development, carriers provide an ever wider range of services, and modern "merchants" prefer to resolve the issue of delivery of goods to the buyer with the help of specialized transport and warehouse (logistics) companies. It is on the shoulders of the operators of these companies that the problem of choosing the optimal route, vehicles, loading and unloading points, customs terminals and many other things falls on the shoulders of which the manufacturer of the goods does not even want to think about.
Modern cargo transportation is divided into the following types :
- By branches of the national economy - transportation of industrial goods, agricultural goods and products, building materials, goods for trade and catering, utilities, postal transportation, transportation of goods of the population;
- By the size of the consignment - mass (transportation of a large volume of homogeneous goods) and transportation of small consignments (transportation of small consignments of goods of various nomenclature);
- On a territorial basis - technological (intrafactory), urban, suburban, intradistrict and interdistrict, intercity, international transportation.
- By the time of order execution - permanent, seasonal and temporary (episodic).
Basically, cargo transportation is carried out by road, and the most favorable tariff is achieved with ship shipments. Air transportation is the fastest way of delivery and at the same time the most expensive.
